Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

to us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.

My role as CEO is to protect the company AND nurture it to grow.

You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying.

I want to be healthy.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

So much of how we act and what we do is based on humility or pride - that's everything. And when you can humble yourself, you know, we are more like Christ when we can humble ourselves.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction